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Home Paternity Testing Kits To Be Regulated In UK
posted by Scott on Tuesday January 02, @05:16PM
from the news dept.
News IHF sent in this link to a UK Independent story about the fact that Ministers are planning to have the DIY DNA testing kits regulated "to outlaw DNA testing by fathers using samples from mothers and children which are not verifiable or gained with consent." That's right - it's not being done due to civil liberties concerns, but because the kits can threaten the best interests of children. When are people going to go to the root of the problem, women who are tricking men into paternity, instead of forcing men to foot the bill for children who aren't their own? Do men simply exist to financially support women and children? With news like this, one has to wonder.

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Social manipulators vs technology (Score:1)
by BusterB on Tuesday January 02, @08:32PM EST (#1)
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Once again the social engineers who govern us are railing against technology that threatens their power to shape society. In the end, I think that technology will win.

How, exactly, are these public watchdogs going to prevent British fathers from sending samples to agencies in other countries... even anonymous post office boxes... and receiving replies by e-mail? How are they going to prevent the quiet transfer of funds from England to some other country for such services when such transfers happen all the time for other reasons? Sure, they can shut down such services within their own borders, but if Germany or the U.S.A. decides to allow them, how is the British government going to stop this from going on?

Granted, such a clandestine scheme would not provide court-level proof of non-paternity, but it would make men who "knew" that they were not the father fight harder and longer and ultimately win.
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